Modern solutions and opportunities in the fitness world
When you hear about “healthy lifestyle”, you probably think of a balanced diet and regular exercising. Modern technology and smart devices are still things that we do not necessarily include in our fitness related vocabulary. Unsurprisingly, most of us actually think about these novelties that they only help us grow lazier and neglect a healthy way of living or regular exercising.
However, it might be worth knowing that both of these topics have something in common – and this thing has been becoming more and more popular amongst wider audiences as well. But how can fitness and digitalisation join forces? What are the modern solutions that – apart from being motivated to lead a healthy life – both trainers and students can benefit from?
We’d like to show all the perks of modern technology in the following post, including all the solutions that can make both your job and your clients’ daily routine much easier.
Smart devices becoming widespread
Smart devices are those portable devices that – despite their size and portability – can offer the same functions as a personal computer would do. And thanks to a wireless internet connection, we can easily hook up to the world wide web, which enables us to complete tasks that earlier mobile devices wouldn’t have been able to do so.
Apart from smartphones becoming widespread, many other devices also gained a lot of attention, such as tablets or the revolutionary innovation that is the smart watch. All of these devices share one common trait – apart from their original, “analogue” function, it can help you deal with loads of different tasks while also providing a platform for various applications and software. So instead of having just one function, you can use it universally, in all walks of life.
Apart from serving an all-around solution, another huge plus of smart devices is their portability. This function has opened up many new paths – even in our daily lives. Who would have thought earlier that the technology we carry around in our smartphones or smartwatches could do and know so much more than the older, more simple devices?
A revolution of apps – aided by smart devices
The previous decade has seen smart devices conquering the world – and thanks to this phenomenon, mobile applications came to the fore. The term “app” encapsulates basically any software that runs on a portable device once we acquired it from a digital marketplace. You can easily choose the best fit for yourself even if you had thought that you would never ever find anything suitable for your needs in the digital world.
Amongst many other topics, the list of apps promoting a healthy way of living and regular exercising is seemingly endless. This category includes all those fancy fitness application that have been swarming the market with various functions, offering very different user experience.
Types of fitness applications
When it comes to fitness applications, you can pick from a huge group of different, practical software. The list of applications related to a healthy way of living and exercising is – just like many other topics – appears to be infinite. Many of us use application to track our daily activities that can also help boost our performance or adhere to our training plan.
Most of us value those programs that can evaluate performance while also recording and evaluating daily training sessions. There are plenty of these applications available for free (or for a small price) – the goal of these is to record your daily successes and keep motivating yourself and your friends. The apps that can track how many kilometres you ran or how many push-ups you did do not only gauge your performance but you can also share it through social media, thus motivating you to exercise regularly. But applications have much more to offer than that – and the options have been becoming much more versatile and colourful in the past years.
There are many apps available to professionals and amateurs alike, all of which focussing on one particular segment of leading a healthy life or exercising. You can find anything starting from online diet-creating applications to programs that monitor how your body is being influenced by your environment. Most of these can be run on smart devices with ease even for those who have been shying away from using the latest novelties of modern technology.
A portable friend who keeps motivating you
It’s pretty clear why fitness applications are becoming more and more popular nowadays. Applications that nudge you towards a healthy way of living or more exercising want to constantly motivate their users to adhere to their daily and weekly routines. And in order to succeed in it, you can find several possible options.
We’ve mentioned application that track and record your activities – but these only represent a tiny fragment of the market of motivational applications. Many interesting and suppletory solutions appeared in the previous couple of years that do not only satisfy the needs of the users but also provide great help to trainers. One of the greatest examples of these apps is Spomoco – trainers,
Spomoco is basically a scheduling assistant – its main purpose is to help your clients book, modify or cancel a training from anywhere and anytime they please. This seemingly simple app does not only assist you with booking related tasks. Its main goal is to take off the administrative burdens from your shoulders, so that you can have more energy and attention to your work, and organise your clients’ training plans or see to their mentoring. Apart from all this, it proves to be a trustworthy companion for your clients – one of the greatest advantages of being able to book quickly is that constant reminders and notifications keep the user’s motivation and enthusiasm intact, pushing them to show up at your classes on a week-to-week basis.
It’s pretty easy to see how different Spomoco is if you compare it with the majority of other applications on the market that focus on those who are crazy about a healthy way of living or regular exercising. Spomoco actually provides an efficient solution to two different target audiences to help them handle their daily chores. And apart of assisting trainers with their administrative duties, it also helps your clients maintain their motivation and enthusiasm at a desired level.
What can you expect from fitness apps in the future?
The examples above demonstrate it well that exercising and smart technology can indeed go hand in hand – actually they complement each other perfectly. It is no wonder then that the market of applications focussing on fitness and a healthy way of living is expanding rapidly.
The success of these easily accessible applications lies within two key things – one of which is their ability to keep you motivated.
In nowadays busy world more and more of us rely on smart devices when it comes to finding a helping hand in our daily routine or just simply looking for inspiration. Since the aim of the applications developed by the fitness industry is to keep you motivated, you can almost take it for granted that any of these apps can deliver what you expect from them.
The second key advantage of smartphone applications lies within their mobility and flexibility.
Take Spomoco for instance – using it as a trainer you’ll get a portable, easy-to-edit calendar and administrative software, while as a client the app can be regarded as a tool for motivation and companion for the weekdays. The apps greatest virtue is that it’s easy to use while it can be utilised for many different tasks.
It’d be hard to predict what the future holds for the market of fitness applications, but there is one thing we can be sure of. The widespread use of multifunctional applications about healthy lifestyle and exercising should be expected just like in any other topic. Spomoco serves a perfect example that something doesn’t have to be unnecessarily complicated in order to be used by different target groups. The secret to the functionality of an application lies within the solutions it can offer to make your life easier.
Summary
All in all, it’s pretty easy to admit that smart technology and exercising aren’t as far from each other as you would think. Just by looking at the sheer amount of applications and the increasing demand for them, having so many apps focussing on motivation and productivity is more than reasonable. Finding the right application is actually only up to you and your long-term goals. Spomoco’s example neatly illustrates that a truly good app can be simple, easy-to-use and useful for different target audiences – all at the same time. And for applications that can make their users’ lives so much easier, you can be sure that they’ll be sticking around for quite some time.